Training Log Archive: Bruce

Orienteering warm up/down 8:51 1.12 km (7:55 / km) +7m 7:41 / km
ahr:136 max:146

Orienteering race 1:05:43 **** 8.01 km (8:12 / km) +41m 8:00 / km
ahr:160 max:178

NZ Queen's Birthday
Day 1 Whirokino
M40A
1 Darren Ashmore NZ 59
2 Carsten Jorgensen NZ 64
3 Bruce 65



Not a bad performance in NZ sand dunes for the first time since World Masters in April 2017.
I had two annoying mistakes at 6 and 8. Both were caused by trying to enter the forest from a known point, but I wasn't able to find the right attack point. At 6, I couldn't see the marked water point, so I wasn't confident of my entry point and missed the control by 20m to the left before turning the wrong way and losing 90 seconds. I then lost more than 30 seconds when the control unit didn't register with my SI stick. Eventually I punched the map and proceeded.
Then at 8 crossed the track only 30m right of the felled area, so I assumed that I was 30m right of the marked felled area on the map. Silly me! The map was incorrect and I then entered the forest too far to the right.
Otherwise I was reasonably clean.
I did have a bit of trouble reading the detail contours underneath green stripe in low light, but I was able to cope by using my magnifier for most of these tricky legs.
The last section in the open hills was fun, but did involve some tough climbs.

This terrain was a real challenge and was very enjoyable. The rain even held off for most of the afternoon, before bucketing down in Palmerston North later in the day.

The main road from Wellington to Levin was closed in the morning due to an accident. This resulted in a 1 hour detour through the hills north of Wellington before a dramatic drop to the coast on a narrow road. Luckily we had plenty of time and did not need to panic.

Note
(rest day)

Cycling 33:15 9.85 km (17.8 kph) +67m
ahr:148 max:181

Running 42:14 7.69 km (5:30 / km) +152m 5:00 / km
ahr:141 max:169

Cycling 18:18 5.33 km (17.5 kph) +30m
ahr:92 max:106

Cycling 32:52 9.83 km (17.9 kph) +63m
ahr:90 max:117

Cycling 30:32 9.53 km (18.7 kph) +84m
ahr:82 max:109

Cycling 30:41 9.85 km (19.3 kph) +63m
ahr:106 max:134

Running 56:25 9.97 km (5:39 / km) +68m 5:28 / km
ahr:127 max:166

Cycling 30:18 9.51 km (18.8 kph) +81m
ahr:95 max:152

Cycling 31:21 9.81 km (18.8 kph) +58m
ahr:94 max:142

Cycling 32:11 9.38 km (17.5 kph) +77m
ahr:92 max:128

Running 1:04:07 10.48 km (6:07 / km) +124m 5:47 / km
ahr:149 max:187

Orienteering race 25:23 ** 3.88 km (6:33 / km) +61m 6:04 / km
ahr:152 max:169

Vic Autumn Series Race 5
Irishtown
Course 3



After Friday's minor hamstring soreness, I didn't feel comfortable to push myself on course 1 today, so I opted for a jog around course 3.
This was technically perfect, and I lost no time at a slower running pace than normal. Winsplits says that I lost 20 seconds on control 2, but that was me taking the decent easy so that I didn't extend my hamstring too much early in the course.

I felt much better at the end that in the warm up. It is starting to feel good already, but it is better to play safe this week with a NZ trip coming up.

Running 9:55 0.88 km (11:13 / km)
ahr:128 max:140

Running 19:47 2.46 km (8:03 / km)
ahr:139 max:160

Running 20:18 2.21 km (9:12 / km)
ahr:136 max:151

Running 20:47 2.43 km (8:33 / km)
ahr:135 max:165

Running 22:22 2.44 km (9:10 / km)
ahr:147 max:168